WiSE - Women in Science and Engineering

Researchers also concluded that rapid population growth was more responsible for the severe water shortages than rainfall patterns were.

NASA and Disney Parks, which collaborated to carry toy space ranger Buzz Lightyear into orbit, are launching new efforts to encourage students to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Advances in the fight against food poisoning, new methods for delivering medicine to cancer cells, and better materials for future spacecraft are among the results published in a NASA report detailing scientific research accomplishments made aboard the International Space Station during its first eight years.

An arid continent has suffered cycles of drought and dust storms for centuries. What is different now?

As climate scientists have begun reaching consensus that Earth’s outlook is getting worse at greater speed, the need for government action is thrown into sharper relief.

The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants.

The new environmental rules are especially concerned with areas around New York City’s reservoirs and water pipelines.

NASA is inviting fifth through eighth grade students to participate in a waste limitation management and recycling design challenge.

For the first time, NASA's Twitter followers will have the opportunity to directly talk live with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Many plans to meet the nation’s demand for power with renewable energy could consume billions of gallons of water every year.

A tiny island just completed a 10-year experiment to see whether it could become energy self-sufficient, and its residents say they have met the goal.

The draft of a bill that Senate Democrats will introduce Wednesday increases an interim target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers plan to look at what effect tiny substances found in products like sunscreen and industrial adhesives have on the environment.

NASA has awarded a three-year contract extension to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., for engineering and science support at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA has awarded a contract to International Trade Bridge Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to support agency-wide efforts to reduce the environmental impact of NASA activities and improve energy conservation.

The next residents of the International Space Station launched into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Exporting waste illegally to poor countries is now a vast business, as companies try to reduce the costs of environmental laws.

Philips has the first entry in an Energy Department contest to build a more efficient 60-watt light bulb.

The European carbon trading system has been the most ''costly climate policy program in the world,'' according to the head of BusinessEurope, a powerful confederation of industry and employer groups.

NASA has selected a.i. solutions Inc. of Lanham, Md., for a Flight Dynamic Support Services contract.